Footprints of Success – Lessons learnt in adopting digital marketing

Organisations that have successfully embraced Digital Transformation are well on their way to reap the real benefits and RoI (Return on Investments). For every success story, however, there are many more perceived or real failures. It is equally good to know about lost wars and fallen heroes.

Three simple measures to validate your success with digital transformation:

1) Enhanced customer engagement and experience at every touch points

2) Smart workforce management

3) Productivity/process optimisation

Common Strategic failures:

Organisational resistance to design thinking

Leveraging wrong digital drivers and ambassadors

Big bang approach instead of keeping it small and simple with pilot projects and then moving rapidly

Aversion to emerging technologies and cloud offerings

Disconnect with Millennials – Social media and mobile devices

Top down push instead of bottom-up stakeholder buy-in

Cultural resistance

The footprints:

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The success patterns or footprints of digital transformation:

Companies that digitally transform before their competition receive the benefits of first mover advantage and competitive edge; the culture that is inherited during a transition is something that your competitor will not be able to copy or replicate.

A better customer experience and engagement in the organisation is reflected in surveys and revenue.

An enhanced brand reputation that helps with business sustainability

Streamlined operations for efficient cost control

Increase in sales that drives your topline

Retention of customers – lesser cost of marketing and sales

Improve management decisions – Data driven decisions

Quick to market with rapid development of new products and services

Design thinking – A company culture that encourages creativity and innovation

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